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Russia says West dealt crushing blow to UN system

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  • Source: Agencies
  • 8 Apr 2022 00:14
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Following the US-led initiative to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council got approved by the UNGA, Russia said it considered it a blow to the UN system.

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  • Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyansky
    Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyansky

On Thursday, Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyansky told Rossiya-24 TV channel that the resolution passed by the UN General Assembly to suspend Russia’s membership in the Human Rights Council is a crushing blow to the UN system itself.

Replying to a question made by the anchor, Polyansky said: "Yes, of course, this is exactly so...this is a blow to the multilateral international system." 

The Russian diplomat added that Russia cannot be expelled from the UN and the Security Council, otherwise, it will be a catastrophic scenario, the diplomat added, as reported by TASS.

"All this evidence that we provided, it just fell on deaf ears." Polyansky stated, stressing that Russia will continue with this path.

He continued by revealing that "many countries are telling us on the sidelines that they understand perfectly well our arguments, that they also have doubts about what is going on, but regretfully we are confident that Bucha is not the last provocation that we will have to face." 

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Polyansky stressed that Western countries dislike Russian "independence;" adding that these countries  "don’t like it that we pursue an independent foreign policy, that we don’t follow their lead like some other countries, which also claim to be global powers."

The diploma added that the domination of the United States is ending and that "They don’t like to see that a multilateral international system is taking shape objectively, regardless of whether they want it or not.

"This is an objective process, it will continue all the same regardless of what they will be doing," The Russian diplomat concluded.

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The United Nations General Assembly voted Thursday on suspending Russia from the UN Human Rights Council as "punishment" for the war in Ukraine, following a US-led initiative.

93 members of the assembly's 193 voted in favor of the suspension, 24 voted against, and 58 abstained.

This is the second-ever suspension of a country from the council since its establishment, with Libya being the first in 2011 when the whole West, mainly NATO members, conspired against Tripoli and led a devastating military campaign that ran the country to the ground in addition to numerous war crimes.

What is noteworthy is that the suspension came after Moscow pushed for the UN Security Council to hear about the Ukrainian crime in Bucha, where Kiev and the West accused Russian soldiers of killing civilians in the town.

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